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By Marc A Zimmerman, Patrick Carter and Rebecca Cunningham | – Injury is the leading cause of death for U.S. children and adolescents, accounting for over 60% of all deaths in this group. Many of these deaths occur during fun, everyday activities, like swimming in the backyard pool or during a family car ride. But […]

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Gaza: Study Shows Rapid Deterioration in Mental Health of Palestinian Children under Israeli Blockade

Middle East Monitor

Palestinian children in the occupied Gaza Strip are experiencing a rapid deterioration in their mental health, a new study by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has found. According to the NRC, the survey found that 68 per cent of schoolchildren “in areas close to the Israeli perimeter fence have clear indications of psychosocial distress”. NRC […]

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Behold the Child: US is Complicit in Thousands of Minor Deaths in Yemen & other Killing Fields

Karen J. Greenberg

( Tomdispatch.com) – Halfway through 2018, MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski hurled a mother-to-mother dagger at Ivanka Trump. How, during the very weeks when the headlines were filled with grim news of child separations and suffering at the U.S.-Mexico border, she asked, could the first daughter and presidential adviser be so tone-deaf as to show herself hugging […]

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Prison Camps for Children have a Horrific History: Do we Want to Join that Legacy?

Wilson T. Bell

Children and family have been central to the institution of the concentration camp from its beginnings 120 years ago. Wikipedia has now added the notorious American border detention centers to its list of concentration camps, and the #FamiliesBelongTogether Twitter hashtag has brought up frequent comparisons. Child survivors of Auschwitz are seen in this 1945 photograph.Creative […]

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#Bringbackourgirls: How Trump made the US into Boko Haram

Juan Cole

Trump campaigned in 2016 on being tougher against radical Muslim movements such as ISIL, al-Qaeda and Boko Haram. He even went so far as to blame all of the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims for these tiny groups (which have largely been defeated by other Muslims). But one of the horrible practices of these radical groups […]

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UN: ‘Nothing Normal’ about U.S. Detaining Immigrant Children

TeleSur

“Detention is never in the best interests of the child and always constitutes a child rights violation,” officials said. The United Nations has called on the United States to stop detaining irregular migrant families and separating children from their parents on its border with Mexico, saying that the acts broke the law. Several hundred children […]

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Iraq: Parliament Rejects Marriage for 8-Year-Old Girls

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Human Rights Watch | – – Amendments Would Have Instated Discriminatory Laws on Family Matters (Beirut) – Iraq’s parliament has rejected proposed amendments to Iraq’s Personal Status Law (PSL) that would allow religious judges to impose discriminatory law on family matters, Human Rights Watch said today. The amendments would have covered areas including inheritance and […]

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The War on Children in Yemen: UNICEF

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Middle East Monitor | – – Millions of children are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance in Yemen, UNICEF’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa said in a press conference Sunday in Jordan’s capital Amman. “More than 11 million Yemeni children are today in acute need of humanitarian assistance. This number makes […]

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Iraq & End of Women’s Rights: Girls Marriage age of 9?

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Mustafa Habib | (Baghdad) | (Niqash.org) | – – Proposed changes to Iraq’s personal status law caused protests because they drop the legal age of marriage to 9. Even worse, the changes come at the same time as an ongoing erosion in women’s status in Iraqi society. On October 30, Iraq’s parliament made a decision […]